Butler Post Game Thread

[storrsroars]

Rule number 2 - don’t eat seafood in the Midwest

locally-caught freshwater fish and crustaceans are fine. Saltwater fish and seafood.... take a pass unless the place has a stellar rep.

 

[UCLJ0211]

A 4-point conference win on the road is a blowout.

 

[Tenspro2002]

We can't keep playing McNeeley, Karaban, and Hass 35+ minutes a game. They're going to get burned out or injured if they play that much every night in conference play. We're going to need more from Ross, Stewart, Mahaney, and Nowell to give those guys some rest.

We were able to wear everyone down last year because our bench kept our starters fresh for a full 40 minutes when the opponents were getting gassed.

We won the championship because Edey tried to play 40 minutes at our intensity and ran out of gas in the second half, while we were fresh.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

"Oh you think I can't win close games? I'm going to make ALL wins close."

...and not look like I'm a nervous wreck who has never done it before.

"Good teams win close games" is more relevant and valuable than, "It should never have been close in the first place."

 

[uconnever]

I’d like to see Stewart playing 20 minutes a game. This was the perfect game for him today - we could have used him.

He played like

 

[uconn_jack]

Diarra must be pretty good at trig. Between the huge arc on his FTs and that floater high off the backboard over Screen, dude has a way of calculating angles.

Don't forget that purposely missed free throw a few games back. Didn't work out, but it was perfectly executed.

 

[ec33]

Hurley's thinking in this regard is not in line with the Boneyard brain trust.

The Boneyard brain trust is too focused on winning today and not enough on nursing along guys that could be critical in March (the exception always being guys who never play as they are pristine).

 

[uconn_jack]

Im aware I usually have ref bias and think it's not as bad as it is. Aka Very aware on my bias, but watching us get held on every cut and screen then watching Tarris foul out on a similar bump play we fight thru hurts.

My biggest ref pet peeve is out of position calls. 74-70, Ross pulls down a board on a missed three, Brooks flopped so hard and a ref at mid court on the opposite side of the play blew a late whistle, because he saw brooks fall. Completely missed the flop. Why can't the ref in position over rule that call? It gave them 2 FT and closed the game to one possession under a minute. It's those calls that help you lose a game.

Or how about refs with no angle on a play swallow their whistle. Trust your fellow refs who are in position to make a call if warranted.

 

[mauconnfan]

Alright I didn’t see this one so a box score has me ready to assume but also ask a couple questions.

I checked in on ESPN play by play and when the Huskies were up early 25-11 I saw Samson Johnson with 6/3 on 3-3 shooting but also did have 2 personal fouls so didn’t expect a lot more minutes first half. I think Tarris already had 4 and 2 as well on 2-3 shooting. So how does Samson Johnson stay there with his stats for the whole game and the only difference for Reed is he missed the only shot he took in the 2nd half?

Also another thing that stood out in the box score is Ball. 0-6 from 3 and 2-8 overall. Not sure why he would get 26 minutes when this happens because he doesn’t guard anyone and he only had 1 rebound . I realize Mahaney isn’t great on D either but he seemed like he was making shots maybe those minutes could have been more balanced? Also Stewie only played 6 at least he can rebound and get putbacks why not a few more minutes for him?

Butler is smallish really wondering why we weren’t hammering it down their throats with Reed and Samson Johnson but again, I didn’t see it. Curious for feedback!